The Nisab of Zakah in Gold

Question:
Is zakah due on gold based on its value, or based on its weight in grams? And if it is based on weight, what is the amount of weight for which zakah becomes obligatory?

Answer:
If he pays zakah in gold, he pays it in gold if he has forty dinars; the zakah of one dinar is sufficient. However, if he pays zakah by value, for example, if he has twenty dinars, the zakah is half a dinar. Since it is not easy to extract half a dinar, as there are no half-dinar coins, he extracts half the value, i.e., half of its market value. If a dinar is worth one hundred in the market, he pays fifty. But if he has many dinars, say forty, he pays one dinar, which is a quarter of the tenth. If he had sixty, he pays one dinar, and the value of the remaining half is one and a half dinars from the sixty. So he must pay one full dinar and pay the value of the half. If he pays the entire value and distributes it among the poor, that is all good.

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